According to Sweden's Migration Agency, over the next three years more than 60,000 failed asylum cases could be handed over to the police. However, the agency expects 46,000 people to slip off the radar after having their applications rejected.
The figures are based on migration projections the Migration Agency made in February; the agency expects 100,000 asylum applications in 2016 and 75,000 the following year.
"There is a huge amount of people who will disappear. It is very problematic," national border police commander Per Lowenberg told Svenska Dagbladet.
"We only find about 10 to 20 percent of those who abscond."
Svenska Dagbladet reported that last year the authorities refused 10,627 asylum applications. Approximately 2,627 of them were forced to leave the country, but 7,331 disappeared and are wanted by the police.
